Iraq seeks to win the new Secretary-General of OPEC

08/17/2012



Baghdad / follow-up JD / .. OPEC delegates said that the organization has postponed a meeting of officials to help in the selection of a new Secretary-General Off sensitive talks threatens to ignite competition for influence with the pursuit of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq to win the job high.

Officials said a committee of officials was due initially to meet the organization's headquarters in Vienna during the month of August, but it has become now likely to hold a meeting in October.

OPEC often face difficulties in agreeing on the Secretary General, comes important appoint a successor to Abdullah al-Badri Secretary-General of the outgoing with Western sanctions on Iran, raising political tensions among the twelve members of the organization.

If no decision in this regard before December, the OPEC will begin in 2013 without a permanent president

The four Member States have nominated candidates for the succession, a Libyan al-Badri his term expires at the end of 2012. / Finished / CNBC Arab


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